How identify and remove leftover files on buildbots?

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Wed Mar 18 14:33:20 PDT 2015


On 2015-03-17 22:26, Marko Käning wrote:
> I just tried to rebuild rkward on the buildbots (in order to analyse this
> further), but it succeeded e.g. for Mavericks [1], although I thought it
> wouldn’t:
> ---
> Building ports
> Building rkward (1 of 1)...package found, not building again
> Ports built successfully:        1
> ---
> 
> Is this success simply due to the fact that I didn’t revbump it?

Looking at the source, it seems like this is the cause, yes.

https://trac.macports.org/browser/contrib/mpab/chroot-scripts/buildports?rev=129381#L94

> But I thought that a revbump wouldn't only be needed, if there wasn’t a
> previously successful build of the port binary present on the corresponding
> buildbot…

I have to admit that I have no idea how the buildbot behaves in such
cases. I never worked on these scripts either.

> Are there - by any chance - actually port binaries available for rkward on
> all buildbots now?

Maybe? But they are not distributable anyway, otherwise they would end
up here:

https://packages.macports.org/rkward/

Rainer


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